Archaeologists made the first of its kind discovery when they unearthed 11 men, women and children in the ancient tomb, with ...

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on ... prehistory to the middle ages represent women in many guises, from goddesses, religious icons, mothers, entrepreneurs, and sex workers ...

In addition, the archaeologists uncovered two copper mirrors, one adorned with a lotus handle, the other bearing an image of Hathor – the revered Egyptian deity of the sky, women, fertility ...

Another Egyptian icon ... fertility is not understood as a purely masculine or feminine attribute. Because the Ancient Egyptians believed that men carried the fetus before transferring them to ...

believed to be a sign of fertility. One intriguing alternate theory suggests that Kokopelli art depicted ancient merchants from Mexico or South America who traveled on foot, carrying a backpack ...

Venus of Willendorf: This four-inch-tall figurine is a female icon of the Ice Age and is 30,000 years old ... enabled decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, unlocking all of the ancient civilization's ...

Rare items believed to have been used as votive offerings to the gods — including so-called fertility statuettes ... archaeologists to believe that ancient women would visit San Casciano both ...

The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women ... They’ve tended to brush aside sculptures of women as images of a fertility goddess. “The sculptures that you find in most of the ...